Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc bought a stake in the parent of its joint-venture partner Korean Air Lines Co, deepening a push into Asia and bolstering the controlling family in its face-off with activist investors. The Atlanta-based airline acquired 4.3 percent of Hanjin Kal Corp, Korean Air’s largest shareholder, and expects to boost the holding to 10 percent over time, …

Bloomberg The United Arab Emirates called for de-escalation and a political solution to the tensions gripping the Gulf region after US President Donald Trump abruptly called off a plan for airstrikes against Iran. “Tensions in the Gulf can only be addressed politically,” the UAE’s minister of state for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, said on Twitter on Sunday. Tensions are boiling …

DUBAI / Emirates Business Chinese investments in the UAE real estate sector is set to surge in the coming months and will grow over 70 percent during 2019, reinforcing the growth potential on offer in the country, according to Fidu Properties, one of the leading Chinese companies in the UAE property market. Chinese investments have gone up 64 percent between …